31-37
Elocution 276 approbation 277 fetters 280 cistern 281

Subordinate 283 turnkeys 283 suppliants 284 pattens 285

Ostler 288 farthingale 290 interment 297 quarries 302

Pilgrimage 311 Union Jack 311 cestus 316

vocabulary

Vocabulary 57-59

Interminable transformations orthographical remonstrance

Codicil evasively slacken perplexity vestige assiduity ostentatious debilitating Beguiled irrevocable

51-56

obdurate retrospectively limekiln malignity

Gainsaying tithe hawsers vacillating adjured querulous portentous exordium discreet bagatelle scourge

Proscribed appeals malefactors reconnoiter festooned


38-43

Vocabulary: wan sconces ingrate beseeching

Untenable dram prolix dubiously

Uncouth physiognomy expatriated pannikins

read chapters 13-18 ANY QUESTIONS BLOG ME BACK, OK

THIS IS YOUR HOMEWORK. I WANT TO SEE SOME OF YOUR WORK ON MONDAY
I will give you time to catch up on your scrapbook

LOOK OUT FOR MY TYPING ERRORS


Read chapters 13-18

After reading each chapter and discussing the action, summarize the major events in the chapter. Discuss all the events.

Choose a character that you want to be throughout the reading of the novel.

You are to document the major action in the novel, and report it from the viewpoint of one of the characters. To do this, you must understand how the characters feel.

/Be creative with layout and foints.

/Use pictures to enhance your scrapbook.

/You must relate how the character is feeling during the act in question.

/All your design must be related to the personality of the character you have chosen.



Even if your character was not there, you must come up wit an interesting and creative way to have your character learn about what happened.

Character trait information is to be filled out continuously.



In each chapter, you must include literary techniques that are used in the novel (metaphor, simile, irony, mood, tone, etcetera) and are mandated to use them in your scrapbook.

You will put together a scrapbook for one character in Great Expectations

It will contain the following:

A scrapbook entry for each chapter

b. Pictures from magazines that illustrate the character's personality.

c. A letter from your character to another character.

D. A letter from another character to your character.

1. Each diary entry should be at least one page typed (double spaced). It should include references to the major events in the chapter. If your character was not present for the events, you should think of a way to have the character learn of the events.

2. The pictures you cut out should be selected in reference to the character trait charts you are fkooking out throughout the novel. You will be required to reference them in your scrapbook. Look for pictures that tell a story.

3. The letters should be at least one page typed (double spaced) and should show some necessity as to its purpose. Why was it necessary to write a letter or receive this letter that is saved in the scrapbook?



4. Decorate the cover of the scrapbook.

5. Put in pictures of the environment in Pips day



In the introduction of your scrapbook, there must be an autobiographical page concerning the character you have chosen to be. You have to create a life for the character based on the setting of the book. It must be true to the events and the time. Discuss the “great expectations” you

(as the character) have for your future(as a young person growing up and as a grown person



1. Start working on your scrapbooks

2. Start with chapter 1 and work your way up to eighteen

3. Summarize the highlights in the major chapters

4. Use the format below to summarize your entries of the major events in the voice of the character you have chosen. ONE FULL PAGE PER ENTRY

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Name:

Chapter/s

Dear Diary,

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Sincerely,


________________

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Letter to_________________Format



Name:

Letter to_______________

Dear__________________,

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Sincerely,



____________________________________

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Letter from_________________Format



Name:

Letter from_______________

Dear____________________,

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Sincerely,


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What do Joe and Ms. Havisham talk abou?

Why does Pumblechook take Pip to the Town Hall?

due fri 14

Hw Due Friday the 14th,

Read up to chapter 13 and answer the following questions


1. Why did Pip suddenly want Biddy to "impart all her learning" to him?



2. Why did the stranger at the three Jolly Bargemen make Pip uneasy?

What did this encounter suggest for Pip's future?



3. What did Pip find puzzling about the pale young gentleman he encountered in Miss Havisham's garden?



4. Why did Miss Havisham hope that Estella would break young men's hearts?



5. What did Pip find puzzling about the pale young gentleman he encountered in Miss Havisham's garden:

6.. How did Pip feel about his financial reward from Miss Havisham and his last visit to Satis House?

7. Why do you think Estella tells Pip he may kiss her? Why doesn't Pip enjoy the kiss? Do you think Pip is wrong to accept a "worthless" kiss?


8. Why does Ms. Havisham want to see Joe?

vocabu

You will be quizzed on the first 20 words by Thursday or Friday
trenchant
remonstrance
augmented
emphatic
reproachful
imprecations
dissuading
contumaciously
imperiously
execrating
pilfering
exonerated
venerated
erudition
perspicuity
sagaciously
ablutions
genial
fugitive
elixir


verification
desolation
vicariously
aspirations
consternation
apprehension
liberal
livid
pilfer
erudition
seclusion

8-12
gourmandising
adamantine
trepidation
transfixed
felicitous
unremunerative
capricious
appalled
ignominiously
sanguinary

chap 11 and 12

Read chapters 11 and twelve and summarize

1103 Due Friday

Vocabular words
Do as befoe

apprehension
liberal
livid
pilfer
erudition
seclusion

8-12
gourmandising
adamantine
trepidation
transfixed
felicitous
unremunerative
capricious
appalled
ignominiously
sanguinary


chap 4
Why was Pip miserable at church and later at Christmas dinner? Why did he become terrified when Mrs. Joe went to get the pork pie?

Chapters 5-9
Wht did Pip mean when he commented, "I thought what terrible good sauce for a dinner
my fugitive friend on the marshes was?"

Why did Pip's convict take such pains to turn over the other convict to the soldiers?

How did Pip convict show Pip that he didn't blame him for the search party and his capture?

Why didn't Pip tell Joe the whole truth about the convict and his relationship with him?

How dod Joe's family life as a child affect everything from his education to his relationship with Mrs. Joe?

Why was Mrs. Joe anxious for Pip to play at Miss Havisham's house?

What effect did Estella's attitude have upon Pip?

due mon and wed week of nov 3

Vocabulary for chapters 1-7, this list may increase Due on Wednesday
Put together a word map for the following words
following the format below:

synonyms antonyms
target word
definition in Word used in a
your own words sentence

or you can provide line drawings, symbols, or magazine cut-outs to illustrate the target word

trenchant remonstrance augmented emphatic
reproachful imprecations dissuading contumaciously
imperiously execrating pilfering exonerated
venerated erudition perspicuity sagaciously
ablutions genial fugitive elixir
verification desolation vicariously aspirations
consternation

Homework for Monday

Read chapters 1-7
1. Why was Pip at the churchyard? Why did the man he met there want a file and "wittles?"
2.Why did Pip refer to his brother-in-law Joe Gargery as a "Hercules in strength, and also in weakness?"
3.Why was it difficult for Pip to carry out the convict's wishes?
4. What is the cliffhanger( an episode ends at a moment of heightened tension)
at theend of Chapter Four?
5. How did Pip's convict show Pip that he didn't blame him for the search party and his capture?

#30

What were law courts like in Dickens' day? How were prisoners treated? What sorts of punishmentd were meted out? What were the prisons like? What are they like today?

great expectations 1

In 1819, the British Parliament passed an act which prevented children under nine years of age from legally being employed and required that no child work more than
sixteen hours a day. In 1833, Parliament passed Lord Althorp's Factory Act, which furt6her limited the number of hours a child could work per week and created a system of factory inspection. Find out about the harsh child-labor conditions of the nineteenth century which made the institution of such acts necessary. What social influences helped to exploit child labor for so long? When were child-labor laws passed in the United States? What did those laws provide?

characteristics

Pick a character
Identify a characteristic/s
Find a quote that supports that characteristics

test

ACT II, SCENE ONE

Vocabulary

eccentric-strange
oppress-to hold back, to prevent from achieving
assimilate-to blend into a group or culture
monologue-to speak thoughts aloud on stage
Prometheus-a Greek god who made man in the image of gods and made him
stand upright
plaintively-pleading
menacingly-threateningly
tentatively-carefully

ACT II, SCENE TWO

Vocabulary

presumably-probably
rebuffs-snubs, rejects
revelation-new, important information
desperation-hopelessness


What are three differences between George Murchison and Joseph
Asagai.

Discuss Beneatha’s definition of assimilationism? How does this
definition create a conflict for Beneatha?

Explain what Walter says about George’s father? Explain why Walter feels
that he and George’s father have a great deal in common?

Discuss what Walter says that illustrates his search for something significant or impressive to do?
What does he do or say to let us know that he is also feeling misunderstood?


Describe Walter and Ruth's relationship based on what they have said.

Explain the news Mama brings home; in addition, explain why Ruth and Walter react as
they do? Show how this is both good news and bad news?

Do you think that Walter’s reaction to Mama is justified basend on his closing statement, “What do you need me…” ? Fully explain your answer.

ACT II, SCENE TWO

1. Describe the differences between Beneatha and George concerning studying/ education.
Explain how the argument ends?
2. Explain what Beneatha refers to when she thanks her mother for understanding her. Be specific in explaing what she means.
3. Describe Walter’s attitude about his job. Because of his angst, what does
he attempt to do?

num 6

Where is the irony in Lindner’s statement: “People can get awful worked up when they feel that their whole way of life and everything they’ve ever worked for is threatened.”

vocabulary for test

ACT II, SCENE ONE

Vocabulary

eccentric-

oppress-

assimilate-

monologue-

Prometheus-

plaintively-

menacingly-

tentatively-

ACT II, SCENE TWO

Vocabulary

presumably-

rebuffs-snubs,

revelation-

desperation-



ACT II, SCENE THREE

Vocabulary

exuberance-

amiably-

ludicrous-

act2, scene 2

Read Act2, Scene 2
Explain why Walter stayed out of work.

#23

Read At 2, Scene1
In a brief paragraph, discuss the conflict of ideas between George and Beneatha?

Look up the name "Prometheus." In a sentence or two explain what George meant by calling Walter "Prometheus."

a raisin in the sun

ACT I, SCENE ONE Vocabulary undistinguished-common, nothing special exasperated-irritated, provoked viciously-violently, cruelly vindicated-cleared of an accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt proposition-suggested plan vengeance-with violence or fury tentatively-uncertainly furtively-secretly, sneaky futile-useless tyrant-ruler who exercises power in a harsh, cruel manner, a dictator

1. In what city does the play takes place? 2. The living room setting seems overtaken by weariness. Name twodetails that suggest this. 3. Who are the first family members to appear? 4. Two references are made to a check. How does Ruth react to each ofthese references?S-15. According to his mother, why is Travis getting so little sleep? 6. Why does Travis ask Ruth for fifty cents? 7. What is the plan Walter, Willy Harris, and Bobo been figuring out? 8. Why is Walter upset with his wife’s reaction? 9. What does Walter want from Ruth? 10. Walter says, “We one group of men tied to a race of women withsmall minds”? What does he mean? 11. What is Walter’s job?S-212. Describe the tone that Beneatha uses with her brother.13. Why is Walter upset with Beneatha’s plan to go to medical school? 14. What does Beneatha mean when she says, “forgive me for ever wantingto be anything at all”? 15. What does Walter tell Beneatha she should do with her life? Inreality, he has a deeper, underlying conflict. What is Walter’s hidden fear? 16. What does the reader discover about the check that Mama is waitingto receive? 17. How does Beneatha feel about the liquor store? 18. Ruth suggests that Mama might help Walter by giving him some of themoney for his dream of buying the liquor store. How does Mama respond? 19. How much money is the check for, and how does Mama intend to useit? How does Ruth say Mama should spend the money? What does this say about thedifferences in their characters? 20. Mama says that her late husband once grieved deeply. What event ledto Big Walter’s grief? 21. Beneatha thinks deeply and is frustrated with her life. What doesshe say she wants to do that makes her mother and Ruth laugh loudly? 22. How does the reader know that Beneatha does not want to marryGeorge Murchison?


Answer the questions in blue!!! Due on Friday
ACT I, SCENE TWO
Vocabulary
inappropriately-unbecomingly, wrongly, improperly
heathenism-“religion” of those who do not believe in God
forlornly-sadly, hopelessly
assimilation-integration, absorption
insinuatingly-cleverly, shrewdly
haphazardly-randomly, irregularly
coquettishly-coyly, flirtlingly
arrogant-self-important, overconfident
eccentric-unusual, peculiar oppressive-cruel, unfair
cliché-overused word or phrase
sarcastically-ironically, mockingly
plaintively-sorrowfully
menacingly-threateningly

1. What happens at the very end of Act I, Scene One? What is thesetting of the start of Act I, Scene two?

2. During the cleaning scene, several details further explain theYoungers’ living conditions. Name one that offers a complete picture of the environment in which theYoungers live and explain why it does so.

3. Why is Ruth upset when she returns home? Why do you suppose she is so unhappy?

4. When Travis enters the room, he too is upset. What is his news, andhow does Beneatha react?

5.Identify Joseph Asagai. What is implied about the relationshipbetween Beneatha and Asagai?

6. What does Asagai give to Beneatha as a gift? Why is Beneatha pleased with it? How does Asagai react?

7. What stereotypes about women does Asagai reveal? What is Beneatha’sopinion about a relationship with Asagai?

9. What is Asagai’s Nigerian name for Beneatha? What does the name meanin English?

10. Why does Beneatha thank Asagai for the nickname?

11. When the postman brings the check for $10,000, Mama is overjoyedand then worried. Explain her conflicting feelings.

12. What does Walter ask as soon as he comes in the door? Why does heshout? Report Walter’s reaction to Mama’s refusal to invest in a liquor store.

13. What concern does Mama have about Walter’s frequent times away fromhome?

14. How does Walter explain his discontent about his job and hisfuture?

15. Why is Mama “proud of…what we done”? Who is “we” in her statement?

16. Why does Walter crumple his papers, make an angry speech, and head out of the apartment?

17. What news does Mama tell Walter about Ruth? What is Walter’s initial reaction?

19. To what does Mama refer when she says, “You are a disgrace to the memory of your father.”?

20. Describe Walter. What are his dreams, his frustrations, his problems?

21. By the end of Act I, what have we learned about Ruth?

22. By the end of Act I, what have we learned about Beneatha?

23. Which of Mama’s values are revealed in Act I?

24. What negative situations in the Youngers’ lives are making their conflicts worse? What positive aspects may help them resolve their problems?